Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To swell.
  • See bollen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To swell; to puff.
  • adjective Swollen; puffed out.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete swollen; puffed out
  • verb obsolete To swell; to puff.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Middle English bolnen, bollen.

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